Saudi Arabia to ban the letter X for religious reasons

[eagler]

http://www.zgeek.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1091206

[madeline_con]

1. And Zgeek got this "quote" where? n/t

[DRoseDARs]

2. From the old axiom, "A sucker born every minute..." n/t

;)

[madeline_con]

4. You got me, fair and square...

:spank:

[DRoseDARs]

9. You got admit it's just nutty enough to be believable. Fundies have wacky ideas of what's profane.

eom

[eagler]

3. Here's link

http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

[DRoseDARs]

8. Yeah, NewsMax has it too. Damn, I was hoping this was Onion work. n/t

[Initech]

5. So how is Saudi Arabia going to advertise "extreme" products now?

They can't spell out the full word, it loses zing!

[MADem]

6. The original source simply asks the question--WILL THEY?

http://www.nysun.com/article/46707

Will Saudis Ban the Letter ‘X'?

And it's the SUN, too...which is like lousy toilet paper with annoying printing on it...

[gatorboy]

7. Welp. There goes the war on X-mas!

[genie_weenie]

10. This is a much better story on Hemoglobin, Magnetism, Mecca

Abd Al-Baset Al-Sayyid: In Mecca, you don't exert any effort.

http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1349

Must get into continual MRI machine and utilize superhuman energy to dominate!

[hughee99]

11. So many jokes...

Malcolm who?
How are they going to outlaw seX if no one knows what their talking about?
I wonder how EXXon will feel about this?
Will they have to close the LeXus dealerships?
Well, at least everyone can avoid paying their taXes.

[TahitiNut]

12. I think _e should do the same _ith the letter "W".

:shrug:

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Well, we've banned geological science in the Nation's parks.

The park service is promoting a book that says "Noah's Flood" created the grand canyon, even as they are prohibited by the Bush administration from discussing the actual age of the thing... so fundies won't get upset.

I wouldn't laugh too much at other crazy theocracies- The good friends of the Family Saud, who run this country, are working overtime to make this place just as nutty.

[sofa king]

14. I remember back in the 90s....

Yokohama had to recall some of its tires because the tread resembled the word "Allah."

There is a relatively simple solution to this sort of thing: publicly and loudly call the zealots behind the idea "fucking morons." Call the Park Service fucking morons, call the creationists fucking morons, and call the people who want to remove the letter "X" from their lexicon fucking morons.

They're not doing this sort of shit because they're offended. They're doing it because they want to control how other people think and act.

So fuck 'em. They're fucking morons.

[TexasLawyer]

15. teXas

I guess I won't be getting any mail from there any time soon.

teXaslawyer in teXas